Snowden is ready to go to jail to return home

Edward Snowden, a former US government contractor who took refuge in Russia after he organized a leak of information about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs more than two years ago, said he was ready to go to jail to return to the United States.

“I agree to go to jail, and have told the government about it many times,” said Snowden in an interview with the BBC airing on Monday. “What I don’t want is to become a deterrent to people trying to do the right thing in difficult situations.”

Snowden said he is still awaiting a response from the US Department of Justice to his proposal.

“We are still waiting for a call back from them,” he said in response to the question of whether his lawyers are actively negotiating with the government.

Earlier, former US Attorney General Eric Holder admitted the possibility of concluding a plea deal with Snowden.

Snowden's statements about the prospects for being in prison repeat his statements made in an interview with Wired magazine in 2014.

“I told the government I’m ready to go to jail if it serves the right purpose,” Snowden said then. - I am more concerned about the fate of the country than what will happen to me. But we cannot allow the law to become a political weapon or discourage people from defending their rights - and no matter how good the deal is. ”

In the US, Snowden has several serious accusations that threatens he is thirty years in prison.

Forum previously reported that Snowden started Twitter account, which instantly gained popularity. When he started Twitter, he forgot to turn off notifications about new followers, adding his entries to favorites, retweets, and private messages. therefore got to your mailbox about 47 gigabytes of notification messages.